Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 60

When they go on shore a fox-colored horse will spring toward them, on which he will mount; and as soon as he is on it, it will jump up with him into the air, so that he will never again see his bride."

Who acts: curiosity, colored horse, horse, first · What happens: go, color, spring, mount, be, jump up · To what, where: shore, first, air, bride

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, colored horse, horse, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 go	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colored	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fox	punct
9	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spring	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 spring	aux
12	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	parataxis
13	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spring	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mount	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 mount	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mount	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 mount	aux
20	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spring	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 jump	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jump	cc
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 soon	advmod
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 jump	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 it	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 it	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 it	cop
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 soon	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 it	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 jump	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 jump	aux
33	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
34	up	up	ADV	_	33 jump	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 jump	obl
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 air	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 air	det
39	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 jump	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 see	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 see	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 see	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 see	advmod
46	again	again	ADV	_	47 see	advmod
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 jump	conj
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bride	nmod:poss
49	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 see	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	curiosity		shore			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
2	color	participle						vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spring	future	a colored horse				toward curiosity	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory
4	mount	future	horse					vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on which=Destination
5	is	present	horse		first			tree rules
6	jump up	future	first				into the air result; with horse; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
7	not see	future	horse	horse's bride		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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